The Indian-born author is best known for his controversial novel The Satanic Verses and fury around the book made him a pop culture figure.
Salman Rushdie is recovering with severe, "life-changing" injuries after being stabbed repeatedly before a scheduled public appearance in the US state of New York over the weekend.Two days after the attack, Rushdie's son, Zafar Rushdie, said his father was well enough to be taken off a ventilator, had been able to speak and his "usual feisty and defiant sense of humour " was still intact.
Here's a shortcut guide to Rushdie's story, why some people wanted him dead and how that made him fodder for sitcom jokes.Rushdie is an author, best known for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses — dubbed by publishing house Penguin Books as one of the most controversial books of modern times.The 75-year-old was born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in Bombay, now Mumbai, before moving to the UK.Rushdie is a self-described lapsed Muslim and "hardline atheist".
The novel draws on elements of the life of Islamic Prophet Mohammed and the origin story of the Qur'an.a piece for the Conversation in 2017Rushdie chooses a provocative name for Mohammed. The novel's version of the Prophet is called Mahound — an alternative name for Mohammed sometimes used during the Middle Ages by Christians who considered him a devil.
In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran's supreme leader, pronounced a fatwa calling upon Muslims to kill Rushdie. The British government responded by putting him under police protection, with Rushdie going into hiding for nearly a decade.according to the BBCWhile he has lived a freer existence since Iran's then-president Mohammad Khatami said the affair was "completely finished" in 1998,
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